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According to 89-year-old Harold Camping, the Rapture actually happened, but in a "spiritual" way. Since I'm not feeling spiritually rapturous, that must mean I'm Left Behind. That actually makes me pretty happy. In a spiritual sort of way.
Yep, as a very left-leaning-liberal-lotus-sitting Christian, I'm pretty glad to be here with all the rest of you non-Raptured folks. The Rapture, the belief that Jesus is coming and will float all the "good" people up to heaven naked so the End Times can occur, has no appeal to me whatsoever. First, I'm not going to be naked in front of strangers for any reason. Second, my experience of some folks who believe in the Rapture is that they have an ulterior motive.
And that motive is not to convert folks to belief in Jesus.
My first Rapture-ready acquaintance was a woman who did day care a short distance down the road from me. Since she was close, and I was in need of a new provider for my 4-year-old daughter, I did a test drive. Attention parents: Never leave your kid with a stranger for hours on end the first time. Try it for just a couple of hours. AFTER you check references.
Anyway, I left my daughter with this woman while I went to the grocery store and ran a few errands. I was gone two hours. When I came back, the kids were playing horsey, with a rope, around a child's neck. I put an end to that and went into the house (yes, the kids were outside without supervision) to pay the woman. There I found her "disciplining" a little girl by making her stand with her nose in a corner for an HOUR! A four-year-old. So, I guess you know my kid was never going back.
This was during the time when, as a Lenten discipline, I challenged myself to wear a cross, visibly, every day for the whole of Lent. Talk about a challenge for a closeted Christian closeted lesbian out journalist. Anyway, the woman sees my cross, and sensing a kindred spirit, proceeds to tell me about the Rapture and the End Times and how she can't wait. Why, I naively (and somewhat snarkily) ask.
She says, "I just can't wait to sit in Heaven and watch the sinners roast in hell." Oh. My. God.
Some people just need people to be "beneath" them, and this women had this trait to the extreme. She thought heaven was a ringside seat to Hell. Hell-o?!?!
I suspect that at least some of Camping's followers suffer from that same insecurity. If they don't feel good enough about themselves, then they need a God to validate them. As long as that God doesn't validate those they believe are not good enough, or beneath them.
I fit that category in so many ways. Right off the bat, I'm lesbian. Then I'm a liberal Christian and a Unitarian to boot. I vote Democrat most of the time. I actually support new taxes. I'm appalled at how backward the US is compared to the rest of the first world in so many ways (including the ridiculously low taxes we pay. There, I said it.) I think kids SHOULD attend public school and be exposed to all sorts of things. I even took my children on field trips so they could be exposed to things and people they didn't get to meet in their home village. I don't believe in the Rapture. Although I always thought the bumper sticker was pretty funny. You know the one. "In Case of Rapture, This Vehicle Will be Unmanned." I put that bumper sticker in the category with the one that said, "If the Car's A'Rocking, Don't Come A'Knocking." Don't know why. Just did.
Oh, there was that one time. Back in August of 1989, some guy named Edgar Whisenant predicted the world would end on September 1st, 1989. Mind you, he'd already predicted (and written a book about it) that the world would end September 1st, 1988. But he claimed, you guessed it, a math error. And this guy was a rocket scientist. Well, a retired rocket scientist. As in used to work for NASA. A REAL rocket scientist (hmmm….now I'm wondering if he was responsible for the misplaced comma that caused all that trouble?!?).
Anyway, he predicted that there was a 96 percent chance the world would end in 1989. Then, just in case he was wrong again, he raised that to 97 percent for 1990, 98 percent for 1991, and so on until he hit 100 percent in 1993. FOUR MORE CHANCES TO BE WRONG!
How do I know all this? Well, I cut the article out of the Oregonian, if you must know. This was just too weird to let
pass and I have kept it, in my WELL-READ Bible, all these years. Yes, I have actually read the Bible. Several times. Took notes, underlined, my RSV Bible needs duct tape to hang together.
So, there I was, on Friday, September 1st, having forgotten all about it. Driving home from the dentist. I'm in a bit of a rush, because I set off a bug bomb that morning because of a major flea infestation (we also had plagues of tree frogs and slugs in our house. Don't ask. Just more proof that I'm among the damned.) The kids were at school, but I had to be home in time to keep them from going into the house. Oh, and I was pregnant. Very pregnant. That probably played into what followed.
So, I'm on the freeway. And the freeway stops. Not grinds to a stop. STOPS. I'm thinking there's a wreck so I turned on the radio. Nothing. I checked the overpass sign. Nada. Not a wreck. Then it hits me! It's the Rapture. All the cars are suddenly unmanned except mine. I've been Left Behind. In spite of the cross, in spite of all that Bible reading. (Did I mention I was VERY pregnant at the time?)
When I started to think rationally, I noticed that other drivers were also left behind. In fact, all of them were left behind. Relief. Of course, now I had to figure out how to get off the stopped freeway, get to a phone, and call someone to go keep my kids from being poisoned by the bug bomb. Remember, it's 1989. No cell phones. To make a long story short, I pissed some people off by forcing my way across two lanes of traffic, then backing up on the shoulder to get to the off ramp. They probably wanted to watch ME burn in hell. But, the kids were rescued. I'm still here.
And I am still here. And so are you. Until October 21, 2001. Because Harold Camping made a mistake. And not his first. Back in the early 21st century it was a math error that undid him. Oddly enough, he is also an engineer. Went to Berkeley. What is it with rocket scientists and the end of the world, anyway?


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It seems that additive manufacturing, aka 3D printing and rapid prototyping, is receiving a lot of attention of late. Even the mainstream media are posting and publishing stories about the potential uses of this exciting technology.
For sure, it is moving out of the lab and into the real world of manufacturing where applications, materials and process refinements are happening at a very rapid (excuse the pun) clip. However, aside from the "gee whiz" factor of the additive processes, manufacturing business wants to know if and how this relatively new way of making parts can help them do a better job.
To that end, our sister publication, Modern Machine Shop, has created a deep repository of relevant information about the additive process. Is it the next big thing, perhaps? It is in your best interest to at least explore and become familiar with who is using additive, how it works and in doing so, trigger potential uses within your shop.
There is always a tendency to over reach when something new is brought to market. We've seen this occur time and again through the years. Few technologies act as replacements for other methods. Rather, new developments tend to find their place within a shop through the merit they can bring to the manufacturing process as a whole. Application and usefulness within manufacturing determines how widespread a given technology becomes.
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Israel: The World's Most 'Christian' Nation
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 | Israel Today Staff
The most well-known, and perhaps even the most important of the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus), is to "love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:39).
There are plenty of countries whose governments and citizens adhere to the Judeo-Christian ethos of helping others. But, as Yeshua taught, "If you love [only] those who love you, what reward do you get?" (Matthew 5:46).
The real test is loving those who hate you, not only in word, but also in deed.
Israel Today recently visited Rambam Hospital in Haifa where that very precept is being obeyed. Outside of the international spotlight, wounded Syrians are being treated without hesitation or discrimination.
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Episode 77: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Sophie Strahan!
This week Gary and I decided to vary things a little, inviting my ten-year-old daughter Sophie to join us to discuss a younger reader's view on story, character and such. It makes for a very different Coode Street podcast, but we hope you'll enjoy it, as always. Normal programming will resume next week!


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A smiling iron cast sun spotted by the roadway near Blue Star Highway in Southern Michigan.
Sun in Glee
A smiling iron cast sun spotted by the roadway near Blue Star Highway in Southern Michigan
Junk Yard Guards
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Oddety found along the Red Star Highway in Southern Michigan
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Oddety found near a barn along the highway.
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Keys from the Past
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CAMP is the Word, Junkyard Treasures of Southwestern Michigan
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A smiling ironcast sun spotted by the roadway near Blue Star Highway in Southern Michigan
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Many magical items found at this flea market in Southwestern Michigan
Lounging with Tails, Junkyard Treasures of Michigan
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This is the world premiere of Anthony Horowitz 's new comedy. Anthony is a hugely successful and prolific writer. He is the author of over 40 books including the best-selling Alex Rider series, the recent Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriartyand the forthcoming James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. For TV he has written for Midsomer Murders and also created Foyle's War.
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Chris Mason has made two triple-A starts this season, one against the Bisons and now one with the Herd. The latter turned out much better for the young pitcher.
Mason added to the roster on Tuesday afternoon, threw seven scoreless innings as the Herd beat the Yankees, 4-0, Tuesday night at PNC Field.
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Information on Safety Planning
Preparing a Safety Plan
Safety at home
When abuser is there:
- Stay out of rooms with no exit.
- Avoid rooms that may have weapons.
- Select a code word that alerts friends and children to call police.
- Leave suitcase and checklist items with a friend.
When abuser has moved out:
- Obtain an order of protection.
- Change locks on doors and windows.
- Insert a peephole in the door.
- Change telephone number, screen calls and block caller ID.
- Install/increase outside lighting.
- Consider getting a dog
- Inform landlord or neighbor of situation, and ask that police be called if abuser is seen around the house.
Safety at work
What to do:
- Tell your employer:
- Give security a photo of abuser and order of protection.
- Screen your calls.
- Have an escort to your car or bus.
- Vary your route home.
- Consider a cell phone for your car.
- Carry a noisemaker or personal alarm.
Protecting your children
- Plan and rehearse an escape route with your children.
- If it is safe, teach them a code word to call 911, and how to use a public telephone.
- Let school personnel know to whom children can be released.
- Give school personnel a photo of abuser.
- Warn school personnel not to divulge your address and phone number.
Safety When Preparing to Leave
- To leave quickly plan to have money, an extra set of keys extra clothing and important documents with a close family member or trusted friend.
- If it is safe, teach them a code word to call 911, and how to use a public telephone.
- Let school personnel know to whom children can be released.
- Give school personnel a photo of abuser.
- Warn school personnel not to divulge your address and phone number.
Checklist - What you may want to take with you, if it is safe to do so:
- Identification
- Address book
- Money
- Credit cards
- Medications
- Social Security Cards
- Keys (house/car/work)
- Welfare identification
- Driver's license/vehicle registration
- Birth and marriage certificates
- Checkbook, ATM (Automatic Teller(Machine) card and other bank books
- Work permit
- School and vaccination records
- Children's birth certificates
- Divorce papers
- Passport
- Pets (if you can)
- Jewelry
Getting an Order of Protection
- Protective orders are available at the courthouse and an advocate is available at the nearest shelter to help you get one.
- Call the Police to get an immediate Order of Protection and check back with them to be sure it is on record.
- Keep your protective order with you at ALL times, and give copies to family, friends, schools, employers and babysitters.
- If the abuser destroys your protective order you can get another one from the courthouse.
- If the abuser violates the protective order, you can call the police and report a violation, call an advocate with a domestic violence program, and/or advise the court of the violation.
Safety and Drug or Alcohol Use
- Many people use alcohol and drugs. Using illegal drugs and abusing alcohol can be very hard on victims physically and emotionally, and may hurt the relationship with children and put the victim at a disadvantage in court.
- You can enhance your safety, if you chose to use, by doing so in a safe place and with people who understand the risk of violence and are committed to your safety.
- You can protect your children by arranging for a close family member or trusted friend to be with them.
Safety and My Emotional Health
- The experience of being battered and verbally degraded by an abuser is exhausting and emotionally draining. The process of building a new life for yourself takes courage and incredible energy.
- To conserve emotional energy and avoid hard emotional times you can call a Hotline or make an appointment with a counselor to find out about support groups and other services available for you and your children.
- If you feel down and need someone to talk to and cannot reach your counselor, a close family member or trusted friend, you can call the 24-hours crisis line of a local domestic violence shelter.
Safety when Exchanging Children for Visitation
- When visitation is unsupervised, you need to have a plan for reducing the opportunity for violence to occur.
- You can arrange for the abuser to collect and return children to the home of a close family member or trusted friend.
- If they are to be collected at your home, you should arrange for someone to be with you.
- You should keep a diary of all contacts relating to exchange and transfer of children and any threatening incidents.
If you are in need of an interpreter please let the district attorney's office know. One will be provided at no cost to you.
Project supported by funding from the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S Dept. of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position or policy of the U.S.DOJ. Rev 11/10


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Oh it's on! Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been confirmed to be in the next installment of the Batman saga currently titled "The Dark Knight Rises". Which character he will play has yet to be released but if I know my Batman trivia, which I think I do, I assume he'll be playing the role of King Tut. Google it, trust me it's funny.
Jodi Foster will step behind the camera for a new sci-fi flick that she's developing. No real details on the movie but apparently it'll have a nice warm family feel to it. So maybe something like "ET 2". The world demands it!
"The Seventh Son" has added Julianne Moore to its cast list which already includes Jeff Bridges. Moore will play the most bad ass of all witches who uses blood magic, whatever the hell that is. This is funny because I've always assumed Julianne Moore was a witch in real life because she looks exactly the same as she did 20 years ago. In days of old she would have been burned at the stake for being in her 50's and still being pretty hot.
Everyone and their mother has joined the cast of "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D" including Derek Mears who you might remember as Jason from the "Friday the 13th" remake. Fans of the "MacGruber" movie may also recognize him as "Large Henchman" which I believe got him an Oscar nomination.
I'm pretty sure you need to get your parent's permission when you're 14 years old and want to get a tattoo. Even if you are paying for it with sex like this girl in Pennsylvania did. The 34 year old tattoo artist is now being brought up on charges and I assume he'll try to say he thought she was over 18. For his sake I hope it wasn't a Bieber tattoo.
Of all the places you can accidentally leave your child when you're drunk, in a bathroom gas station has got to be in the top 5 worst places. Apparently you can also get into some serious trouble for it because a Delaware women is facing DUI and other charges after doing just that. News to me.


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If you thought Alabama getting a bye week leading in to the Texas A&M game was strange, you are right. Getting extra time to study up on the SEC West rivals, the same Aggies who handed Alabama their only loss in 2012, was not done by design according to Alabama head coach Nick Saban. Instead, Saban claims Alabama was left hanging on the wrong side of a scheduling break-up.
"We had a game first week, second week, third week," Saban said on his radio show, according to AL.com. "Where we're playing Colorado State was the bye week" Saban said, referring to Alabama's week three opponent. "The team we're playing in the second week dumped us, so the only game we could get was Colorado State."
Alabama finalized a deal to play Colorado State this season in December, according to FBSchedules.com. Alabama also agreed last October to host FBS newcomer Georgia State. That game will be played on October 5. The Crimson Tide also have a late non-conference match-up with FCS Chattanooga, scheduled just before the regular season finale against Auburn.
"This wasn't by plan that we did this," Saban said.
Nobody has been able to confirm which team dropped Alabama from Alabama's schedule, and FBSchedules.com does not have any record of any other 2013 game that is not still taking place for Alabama. So who was this mystery team that dreamed of upsetting Saban?
Your guess is as good as anyone's right now. Perhaps it was unsettling for Saban to have the schedule adjusted this way, but it could end up being a benefit. The narrative here is if Saban has extra time to prepare for an opponent, it could prove to be a masterful plan that leads Alabama to a resounding victory.
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The Debut of Chef David Kinch's "Manresa" Cookbook
David Kinch, the supremely gifted. Michelin two-starred chef-owner of Manresa in Los Gatos, has wanted to do a cookbook for more than seven years.
But the timing was never right.
Until now.
His first cookbook, "Manresa" (Ten Speed Press), will debut Oct. 22.
Like all that he does, it was meticulously thought out beforehand. So much so that the concept and artistic look were nearly fully formed already when he finally sat down to commit to doing it.
For instance, the measurements for the ingredients in the recipes are listed first and foremost in metric weights with imperial quantities following in parenthesis. That's because that's the way that chefs cook for greatest efficiency and precision.
Kinch spent 14 months crafting the book, which focuses on dishes served at the restaurant over its past 13 years. Almost all of the gorgeous photos in the book were taken in the Manresa dining room, with photo shoots once a month of a dozen dishes each time.
The result is a stunning book that's quite personal, too, with stories about how Kinch took the advice of Thomas Keller of the French Laundry to buy the building he opened Manresa in, rather than just lease it, in order to cement a future there. Kinch also writes about how his relationships began with Love Apple Farms, which supplies exclusively to Manresa, and hobbyist farmer Gene Lester, a retired IBM engineer who now grows some of the most illustrious citrus around that's spotlighted in a multi-course dinner each year at the restaurant.


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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Philly '09 Round Up
This is the final round of commissions from last month's Philly con. I ended up doing 17 head sketches, which explains why I was so busy all weekend. Thanos, pictured above, was probably my favorite. I don't really know much about the character, but I certainly wouldn't mind drawing more of him.
If all goes well, I should be finished with my "secret" project this weekend, so I might have an announcement next week. As I may have mentioned before, it's not so much that I can't talk about it, as it is that I don't want to jinx it.
Have a great holiday weekend! Stay safe and don't light any fireworks in your hands!
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Charlie Sheen lost his court battle Tuesday to regain full custody of his twin boys from his ex-girlfriend Brooke Mueller.
The closed-door hearing lasted about 90 minutes. Sheen's lawyers had argued that Mueller's recent trip to rehab made her an unfit mother but the judge wasn't persuaded based on Sheen's recent behavior.
"It's not a shock the judge would deny Sheen's custody request," said NBC LA Legal Analyst Royal Oaks. "This isn't a ping-pong game where you toss the kids back and forth. It was just a month or so [ago] that the judge felt the allegations against Sheen of instability and possible violence were justifying taking the kids away from him."
Sheen avoided the cameras coming in and out of the courthouse. However, his ex-wife Brooke Mueller was surrounded by them.
"I have to get to my car," said Mueller when asked about the hearing outside the courthouse.
Superior Court Judge Hank Goldberg excluded all members of the media, saying it's in the "best interest of the children."
On March 1, authorities removed the boys from Sheen's home. Sheen, 45, and his estranged 33-year-old wife announced a custody agreement last month. The agreement was announced about a week after Mueller obtained a restraining order against Sheen.
The other case involves Sheen's lawsuit against his former employer. That lawsuit, filed in March, names Warner Bros. and Chuck Lorre, creator of "Two and a Half Men."
Sheen seeks punitive damage and recovery of unpaid wages. He was fired in March from the show.
Sheen Loses Latest Custody Battle
The former Two and a Half Men star had two court cases Tuesday in LA
Charlie Sheen lost his court battle Tuesday to regain full custody of his twin boys from his ex-girlfriend Brooke Mueller.


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Two choirs cause tension in Sandy Hook
2 student choirs bring tears, attention and some confusion
NEWTOWN -- Schools Superintendent Janet Robinson was one of millions awed by the debut of 26 Sandy Hook third- and fourth-graders singing "America the Beautiful'' at the Super Bowl pre-game show in New Orleans. She was hardly the only one. Burly football players from both teams wept, a tribute to the young performers honoring 26 lost classmates and educators in a Dec. 14 shooting mourned across the globe.
Weeks earlier, a different group of 21 Newtown youngsters had stirred similar emotions when they sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on national TV.
Now, Robinson is in the center of what has gone from murmurs into a simmering dispute over which singing group truly represents Sandy Hook.
The drama over the two different groups started after New York music producer Tim Hayes decided to tap into the musical arts to help the Sandy Hook community heal after the Sandy Hook massacre.
Days after the shooting, Hayes called school leaders about coordinating a student-focused musical performance. He said he was politely rejected because administrators felt it was too soon. He approached churches and received a similar answer. He was then steered to the Newtown Youth Academy and ultimately a private theater studio in town, Encore Productions.
Encore owner Sabrina Post volunteered to assist Hayes with the project. She enlisted children enrolled in her program as well as their local friends and relatives. All 21 children from kindergarten age to 13 are Newtowners, he said.
As the project progressed, the children were invited to perform at the Ridgefield theater and at a New York Knicks game. On Sunday, they will sing for the pre-Grammy show.
Unbeknownst to Hayes, however, an anonymous donor on a parallel track arranged to send 26 Sandy Hook Elementary children to the Super Bowl. Those were a different group of children altogether.
Confusion ensued. School leaders and Sandy Hook families were suddenly thrust into the limelight.
Post's history in the school system has added another element of tension. She resigned as the Newtown High choral director in 2005 after she was accused of financial improprieties for which she made restitution and was granted a court-ordered accelerated rehabilitation.
In an interview Thursday afternoon, Robinson said she was flooded with queries about Post's connection with the school group. There is none, she said.
"The Super Bowl performers are the only legitimate (Sandy Hook school) group,'' Robinson said.
As for the proceeds for the DVD recording that was made, Robinson said that also has nothing to do with the school system.
District Music Director Michelle Hiscavich told Robinson that some parents felt this was an exploitation of their tragedy.
"While the Superbowl and `From Broadway with Love' were wonderful opportunities, the preparations were very stressful for everyone involved in such a short period of times. It is too difficult to manage at this time,'' Hiscavich said in a message to Robinson.
Hayes said he doesn't want to "fan the flames of controversy'' but is saddened that what was intended to be a venue for children to offer their condolences turned sour. The Grammys will be the finale for his music group, he said.
"These kids who sang these songs did so with the purest intentions,'' Hayes said, noting none were personally identified so they could simply be Newtown's children.
And he also applauded the school's choir.
"Two acts of kindness are better than one,'' Hayes said.


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Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.

Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992), and the following books with City Lights Publishers: Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1981), The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983), Tales of Ordinary Madness (1984), Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 (2008), Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010), More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011), and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
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David Stephen Calonne has edited four previous books of uncollected prose by Charles Bukowski for City Lights: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 (2008), Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010), More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011), and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He is the author of several books, including the critical study Charles Bukowski, and the editor of Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am/Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993.
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Listen to a podcast of former San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman and poet Neeli Cherkovski remembering life with the inimitable Charles Bukowski.

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions is a substantial selection of these wide-ranging works, most of which have been unavailable since their original appearance in underground newspapers, literary journals, even porno mags. Among the highlights are his first published short story, "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip"; his last short story, "The Other"; his first and last essays; and the first installment of his famous "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column. The book contains meditations on his familiar themes (drinking, horse-racing, etc.) as well as singular discussions of such figures as Artaud, Pound, and the Rolling Stones. Other significant works include the experimental title piece; a fictionalized account of meeting his hero, John Fante ("I Meet the Master"); an unflinching review of Hemingway ("An Old Drunk Who Ran Out of Luck"); the intense, autobiographical "Dirty Old Man Confesses"; and several discussions of his aesthetics ("A Rambling Essay on Poetics and the Bleeding Life Written While Drinking a Six-Pack (Tall)," "In Defense of a Certain Type of Poetry, a Certain Type of Life, a Certain Type of Blood-Filled Creature Who Will Someday Die," and "Upon the Mathematics of the Breath and the Way", revealing an unexpectedly learned mind behind his seemingly offhand productions.

 Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook is essential reading for Bukowski fans, as well as a good introduction for new readers of this innovative, unconventional writer.

"Finally, after Bukowski's nearly 50 published books: novels, short stories, poetry, letters, essays, etc. David Calonne has unearthed Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook, the previously missing link in Bukowski's oeuvre that suddenly makes everything come clear."
 —John Martin, Black Sparrow Press

 "You know, I just think this is really hot. Among its many gifts, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook has one of the best lesbian sex scenes I ever read. I read Bukowski standing up one day in a bookstore (City Lights) and thought he did it too. What Henry Miller did. He wrote American. When it meant something good. Fucked up, male, but incredibly true. In a distinct rhythm."
 —Eileen Myles, author of Sorry, Tree and Cool for You

 "Bukowski wrote the way he lived, and Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook is as vivid, bad-ass, screamingly funny, and gutter-angelic as the man himself. Reading these stories and essays, you can hear the beating heart of the poet in every line. Bukowski never wasted a word,
 and this collection should go far towards shining a light on prose in danger of being lost in the shadow of its larger-than-life author. Those new to his work will have the good fortune of discovering a writer who could break your heart, make you howl, and slap you off your bar-stool you in a single sentence. In a world long since gone lousy with faux hard-living typers and posers, he was the original."
 —Jerry Stahl author of Permanent Midnight, Perv, Plainclothes Naked, and I, Fatty.
 02 00 Essential uncollected work from one of the most infamous and provocative contemporary American writers. 03 02 02 00 East Bay Literary Examiner
"With selected pieces ranging from 1944-1990, Bukowski cleverly paints his careful moments of brutal honesty that can be regarded as some of the most sublime narratives Bukowski's ever produced . . . If Bukowski fans find their personal library lacking this spirited collection, I'd suggest they be quick to snag a copy."

—Tony R. Rodriguez
 http://www.examiner.com/x-706-East-Bay-Literary-Examiner~y2009m4d5-Charles-Bukowskis-Recent-Collection-of-Essays-and-Stories 02 00 The Bloomsbury Review
"This is a valuable addition to the expanding, some might say morbidly obese, bulk of posthumous Bukowski titles. It's not just another agglomeration of odds and soda, unfinished drafts, and scraps that weren't good enough to publish the first time around, flaws that characterized his recent output and which even his most fervent acolytes must realize. No, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook is a different animal. . . . This collection is also unique in that it offers a glimpse of Bukowski as nonfiction writer. . . . Most of his work, in fact, occupies a murky uncertain terrain, a lawless border town where poetry, fiction, and memoir meet for a light lunch. In some of these essays, we meet a writer of criticism and manifestos, reminding us that Bukowski was never simply a primitive naif but rather a disciplined, self-aware, thoughtful, and widely read artisan. It took a lot of hard work to make it seem otherwise."
 —Andrew Madigan
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"[Bukowski] could be generous and mean-spirited, heroic and defensive, spot-on and slanted, but he became the world-class writer he had set out to be; he has joined the permanent anti-canon or shadow-canon whose denizens had shown him the way. Today the frequent allusions to him in both popular and mainstream culture tend more to respect than mockery. If scholarship has lagged, this book would indicate that this situation is changing."
 —Gerald Locklin
 http://www.amspressinc.com/rals.html 02 00 Bold Monkey
 "It features a wealth of previously uncollected Bukowski material, including his first published short stories, book reviews, essays on literature, U.S. politics, his writing craft, biographical accounts, entries from his famous NOTES of a DIRTY OLD MAN newspaper column, tips on how to win at the racetrack and even a review of a Rolling Stones concert. David Stephen Calonne provides a lucid and highly learned introduction to the book. . . . No Bukophile should miss out on this book."

 —Bold Monkey
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"[Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook is] a genuine treasure trove of some of Bukowski's most important and entertaining work. David Calonne's excellent introduction provides a comprehensive overview of Bukowski's literary career, and contextualizes its importance and relevance in an intelligent and convincing manner. . . The result is a fascinating collection that clarly show how Bukowski developed his school-of-hard-knocks education into a solid, full-fledged aesthetics, and reveals a surprisingly erudite and well-read mind, proving that there was indeed a method to his apparent madness. The gritty panache and street-level humor with which Bukowski lays bare his hard-earned wisdom makes for a compelling read. . . But Portions is much more than just an entertaining read, offering many revealing insights and behind-the-scenes looks into the workings of the mind of a genuine outsider and literary innovator. As such, Portions provides an important cornerstone in the foundation of what is gradually becoming a true monument in American letters. This is essential reading for Bukowki fans (and skeptics), as well as anyone interested in the development of modern American literature, to which Bukowski has made a major contribution."

—Mark Terrill
 02 00 Los Angeles Times
"[The] essays [in Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook] have that sometimes-absent discipline (or help from editors) so that even when they consist of disconnected paragraphs, they have a kind of form. And, I think, a preciseness of language that's missing in his lesser work. I was charmed. . . Editor David Stephen Callone makes the case, in his introduction, that Bukowski had an 'essentially European cultural sensibility,' that his dirtiness was transgressive a la Bataille, that his dark humor is existential. Maybe I'm responding to these intellectual rubrics—or maybe I'm swayed by his refusal to behave, just as my drunken poet friends were years ago. . . there is also a fair measure of the spark that made Bukowski a Los Angeles icon in the first place."

—Carolyn Kellogg
 http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/816965/34621661 02 00 Charleston City Paper "In digging up more fragments from the author's vast (and uneven) library, editor David Stephen Calonne . . . reveals many of the Dirty Old Man's less-than-savory peccadilloes, but also his singular significance to 20th-century American literature . . . Over the course of the 35-plus pieces in this collection, Bukowski makes full use of his Muse, touching on nearly all his favorite topics: drinking, women, sex ('Workout' could carry an X rating), fighting, horse-racing, the drudgery of the nine-to-five . . . Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook is a welcome addition to the growing Bukowski library . . . "
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"The pillars of his life, as Charles Bukowski saw it, were elemental: 'Poetry, paint, sand, whores,' he writes in the title polemic of his new volume of uncollected writings, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, adding, for good measure; 'food, fire, death, bullshit…the turning of the fan…the bottle.' In a literary climate where it is assumed writing can be taught and networking Helps Your Career, this unholy assemblage of influences has become an almost refreshing creative counter-mantra—and yet it is also a cliché. Prolonged exposure to its twisted logic can be invigorating and boring, which is what it's like to pick through this grab-bag volume. On one page there is the sparkle of Bukowski's genius; on the next there's the self-pitying."

—John Freeman
 http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/8311.html 01 00 Beat Scene "Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook is mightily essential reading for all Bukowski fans. . . . City Lights have given us earlier Bukowski, the man scrapping to find a readership, the man still drinking himself into a stupor in order to quell his fear of live readings. This is hungry Charles Bukowski." 01 00 Library Journal "This volume is filled with 36 short selections of prose by the late Bukowski, who is especially known for his poetry (e.g., Bone Palace Ballet). Via short stories and nonfiction—introductions to the work of other writers, book reviews, and autobiographical accounts—the reader is taken on a roller-coaster ride through the waxing and waning lucidity and sometimes depravity of Bukowski's trademark topics (perhaps obsessions): sex, drinking, writing, and self-deprecating. Delving into social commentary, such as his observation that society is more interested in an artist's personal life than artistic creations, Bukowski also documents the most private moments of his life, seemingly giving society what it wants. Describing in painful detail the abuse he suffered as a child, his antisocial interactions with others, strange sexual encounters, and ongoing battles with alcoholism and depression, this author remains astoundingly unique. Some will declare him an artistic genius, while others will agree with Bukowski's own depictions of himself as a dirty old man. Recommended for larger public and academic libraries." 01 00 Kirkus Reviews "More posthumous uncollected prose from the Dirty Old Man. Calonne (English/Eastern Michigan Univ.; William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being, 1983, etc.), who previously edited a volume of Bukowski's interviews, digs up a few more fragments from the author's vast—and scattershot—oeuvre. As with many 'uncollected' selections, the results are a mixed bag, but Bukowski's gruff directness and take-no-crap attitude shine through. Discussing his style in 'Basic Training,' he writes, 'I hurled myself toward my personal god: SIMPLICITY. The tighter and smaller you got it the less chance there was of error and the lie. Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.' Certainly, much of Bukowski's genius lay in his plainspoken, immediate, self-assured prose, but his constant attack on the literary establishment also earned him accolades—and scorn—from fellow writers and critics. He held special contempt for pretentious elitists, those, as Calonne eloquently notes in his illuminating introduction, 'who tried to domesticate the sacred barbaric Muse: the disruptive, primal, archaic, violent, inchoate forces of the creative unconscious.' In the more than 35 pieces that comprise the volume, Bukowski runs through all his favorite topics—drinking, fighting, women, horse-racing ('A track is some place you go so you won't stare at the walls and whack off, or swallow ant poison')—but he's at his most lucid and powerful when he explores the process of writing, both his own and others (Artaud, Hemingway, his hero John Fante). There's a neat deconstruction of Ezra Pound, excerpts from his 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man' column and a peripatetic review of a Rolling Stones concert. Though a few of the selections are little more than ill-formed rants, probably originally scrawled across a bar napkin, there is plenty of the visceral, potent, even graphically sexual (tame readers beware of 'Workout') material to satisfy fans.Not for novices, but a welcome addition to Bukowski's growing library."
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During a heated debate with Democratic rival Chris Coons on October 19, Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell challenged Coons on his assertion that the Constitution mandated a separation between church and state, asking, "Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?"
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In a May appearance on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, Kentucky's GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul sparked controversy when he was asked about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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LIST_CACHE doesn't work with ties to most DBM implementations, because Memoize tries to save a listref, and DB_File etc. can only store strings. This should at least be documented. Maybe Memoize could detect the problem at TIE time and throw a fatal error.
20010623 This was added sometime prior to 20001025.
Try out MLDBM here and document it if it works.
We should extend the benchmarking module to allow
timethis(main, { MEMOIZED => [ suba, subb ] })
What would this do? It would time
mainthree times, once with
subbunmemoized, twice with them memoized.
Why would you want to do this? By the third set of runs, the memo tables would be fully populated, so all calls by
subbwould return immediately. You would be able to see how much of
main's running time was due to time spent computing in
subb. If that was just a little time, you would know that optimizing or improving
subbwould not have a large effect on the performance of
main. But if there was a big difference, you would know that
subbwas a good candidate for optimization if you needed to make
maingo faster.
memoizeshould return a reference to the original function as well as one to the memoized version? But the programmer could always construct such a reference themselves, so perhaps it's not necessary. We save such a reference anyway, so a new package method could return it on demand even if it wasn't provided by
memoize. We could even bless the new function reference so that it could have accessor methods for getting to the original function, the options, the memo table, etc.
The TODISK feature is not ready yet. It will have to be rather complicated, providing options for which disk method to use (GDBM? DB_File? Flat file? Storable? User-supplied?) and which stringizing method to use (FreezeThaw? Marshal? User-supplied?)
Maybe an option for automatic expiration of cache values? (`After one day,' `After five uses,' etc.) Also possibly an option to limit the number of active entries with automatic LRU expiration.
You have a long note to Mike Cariaso that outlines a good approach that you sent on 9 April 1999.
What's the timeout stuff going to look like?
EXPIRE_TIME => time_in_sec EXPIRE_USES => num_uses MAXENTRIES => n
perhaps? Is EXPIRE_USES actually useful?
19990916: Memoize::Expire does EXPIRE_TIME and EXPIRE_USES. MAXENTRIES can come later as a separate module.
Put in a better example than
fibo. Show an example of a nonrecursive function that simply takes a long time to run.
getpwuidfor example? But this exposes the bug that you can't say
memoize('getpwuid'), so perhaps it's not a very good example.
Well, I did add the ColorToRGB example, but it's still not so good. These examples need a lot of work.
factorialmight be a better example than
Add more regression tests for normalizers.
Maybe resolve normalizer function to code-ref at memoize time instead of at function call time for efficiency? I think there was some reason not to do this, but I can't remember what it was.
Add more array value tests to the test suite.
Does it need more now?
Fix that `Subroutine u redefined ... line 484' message.
Fixed, I think.
Get rid of any remaining *{$ref}{CODE} or similar magic hashes.
There should be an option to dump out the memoized values or to otherwise traverse them.
What for?
Maybe the tied hash interface taskes care of this anyway?
Include an example that caches DNS lookups.
Make tie for Storable (Memoize::Storable)
A prototype of Memoize::Storable is finished. Test it and add to the test suite.
Make tie for DBI (Memoize::DBI)
I think there's a bug. See `###BUG'.
Storable probably can't be done, because it doesn't allow updating. Maybe a different interface that supports readonly caches fronted by a writable in-memory cache? A generic tied hash maybe?
FETCH { if (it's in the memory hash) { return it } elsif (it's in the readonly disk hash) { return it } else { not-there } } STORE { put it into the in-memory hash }
Maybe `save' and `restore' methods?
It isn't working right because the destructor doesn't get called at the right time.
This is fixed. `use strict vars' would have caught it immediately. Duh.
Don't forget about generic interface to Storable-like packages
20010627 It would appear that you put this into 0.51.
Maybe add in TODISK after all, with TODISK => 'filename' equivalent to
SCALAR_CACHE => [TIE, Memoize::SDBM_File, $filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666], LIST_CACHE => MERGE
Maybe the default for LIST_CACHE should be MERGE anyway.
There's some terrible bug probably related to use under threaded perl, possibly connected with line 56:
my $wrapper = eval "sub { unshift \@_, qq{$cref}; goto &_memoizer; }";
I think becayse
@_is lexically scoped in threadperl, the effect of
unshiftnever makes it into
_memoizer. That's probably a bug in Perl, but maybe I should work around it. Can anyone provide more information here, or lend me a machine with threaded Perl where I can test this theory? Line 59, currently commented out, may fix the problem.
20010623 Working around this in 0.65, but it still blows.
Maybe if the original function has a prototype, the module can use that to select the most appropriate default normalizer. For example, if the prototype was
($), there's no reason to use `join'. If it's
(\@)then it can use
join $;,@$_[0];instead of
join $;,@_;.
Ariel Scolnikov suggests using the change counting problem as an example. (How many ways to make change of a dollar?)
Jonathan Roy found a use for `unmemoize'. If you're using the Storable glue, and your program gets SIGINT, you find that the cache data is not in the cache, because Perl normally writes it all out at once from a DESTROY method, and signals skip DESTROY processing. So you could add
$sig{INT} = sub { unmemoize ... };
This means it would be useful to have a method to return references to all the currently-memoized functions so that you could say
$sig{INT} = sub { for $f (Memoize->all_memoized) { unmemoize $f; } }
19990917 There should be a call you can make to get back the cache itself. If there were, then you could delete stuff from it to manually expire data items.
19990925 Randal says that the docs for Memoize;:Expire should make it clear that the expired entries are never flushed all at once. He asked if you would need to do that manually. I said:
Right, if that's what you want. If you have EXISTS return false, it'll throw away the old cached item and replace it in the cache with a new item. But if you want the cache to actually get smaller, you have to do that yourself. I was planning to build an Expire module that implemented an LRU queue and kept the cache at a constant fixed size, but I didn't get to it yet. It's not clear to me that the automatic exptynig-out behavior is very useful anyway. The whole point of a cache is to trade space for time, so why bother going through the cache to throw away old items before you need to?
Randal then pointed out that it could discard expired items at DESTRoY or TIEHASH time, which seemed like a good idea, because if the cache is on disk you might like to keep it as small as possible.
19991219 Philip Gwyn suggests this technique: You have a load_file function that memoizes the file contexts. But then if the file changes you get the old contents. So add a normalizer that does
return join $;, (stat($_[0])[9]), $_[0];
Now when the modification date changes, the true key returned by the normalizer is different, so you get a cache miss and it loads the new contents. Disadvantage: The old contents are still in the cache. I think it makes more sense to have a special expiration manager for this. Make one up and bundle it.
19991220 I have one written: Memoize::ExpireFile. But how can you make this work when the function might have several arguments, of which some are filenames and some aren't?
19991219 There should be an inheritable TIEHASH method that does the argument processing properly.
19991220 Philip Gwyn contributed a patch for this.
20001231 You should really put this in. Jonathan Roy uncovered a problem that it will be needed to solve. Here's the problem: He has:
memoize "get_items", LIST_CACHE => ["TIE", "Memoize::Expire", LIFETIME => 86400, TIE => ["DB_File", "debug.db", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0666] ];
This won't work, because memoize is trying to store listrefs in a DB_File. He owuld have gotten a fatal error if he had done this:
memoize "get_items", LIST_CACHE => ["TIE", "DB_File", "debug.db", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0666]'
But in this case, he tied the cache to Memoize::Expire, which is *not* scalar-only, and the check for scalar-only ties is missing from Memoize::Expire. The inheritable method can take care of this.
20010623 I decided not to put it in. Instead, we avoid the problem by getting rid of TIE. The HASH option does the same thing, and HASH is so simple to support that a module is superfluous.
20001130 Custom cache manager that checks to make sure the function return values actually match the memoized values.
20001231 Expiration manager that watches cache performance and accumulates statistics. Variation: Have it automatically unmemoize the function if performance is bad.
20010517 Option to have normalizer modify @_ for use by memoized function. This would save code and time in cases like the one in the manual under 'NORMALIZER', where both f() and normalize_f() do the same analysis and make the same adjustments to the hash. If the normalizer could make the adjustments and save the changes in @_, you wouldn't have to do it twice.
20010623 Add CLEAR methods to tied hash modules.
20010623 You get a warning if you try to use DB_File as LIST_CACHE, because it won't store lists. But if you use it as the underlying cache with an expiration manager in the middle, no warning---the expiration manager doesn't know it's managing a list cache, and memoize doesn't know that DB_File is underlying. Is this fixable? Probably not, but think about it.
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